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Gmail Contacts finally becomes useful

February 12, 2009 Google

If you’re a Gmail user like me, 2008 seemed like a lost year.  Google did give us the Google Labs features, many of which were nice tweaks, but there wasn’t a significant improvement to the core application.  2009, as you know has been quite different.  We’ve seen the addition of many significant features, with offline [...]

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Tim O’Reilly discusses web 2.0 and cloud computing

October 26, 2008 Cloud Computing

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Over the last few months I’ve been asked, a lot, by some smart folks on how web 2.0 and cloud computing are defined, and what their impact will be on technology as a whole.  Since both terms are used very loosely, and often times by marketers who aren’t knowledgeable in either field, web [...]

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Google Insights is one sweet analytics tool

August 7, 2008 Google

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A couple of days ago, Google rolled out a new service called Google Insights for Search. The basic premise is that you can enter a search term, and Google will report back all kinds of useful data on that term, and related terms. There is an obvious use [...]

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The Powerset acquisition and what it means for Microsoft’s enterprise software business

July 2, 2008 Feature

Since the rumor about Microsoft’s $100M acquisition broke last week (now no longer a rumor, but a fact), I’ve had several people ask me on my take of where Microsoft is headed with this new tool in its search toolbox. First let me frame my angle here. Over the last four years I’ve worked [...]

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Udi Manber explains Google Search Quality

May 22, 2008 Business

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Last month I pointed to an article at Popular Mechanics in which Udi Manber talked about Google’s approach to search integrity. Manber just followed up with a post on the official Google blog regarding the same theme.

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Yahoo is the big loser, but Microsoft isn’t far behind

May 4, 2008 Microsoft

Unless you were living under a rock, you probably know by now that Microsoft decided to walk away from an acquisition of Yahoo! late yesterday afternoon. A great behind the scenes view of what happened was posted by Kara Swisher here. Earlier this week, a much smaller – almost insignificant – deal apparently [...]

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